Monthly Reading Recommendations: Focus on Women's History
This year, the National Women's History Alliance has designated "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations" as the theme for Women's History Month 2023. The theme celebrates the collective strength, equality, and influence of women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship, and leadership.
In the spirit of education and leadership, a reading list has been curated, featuring books about money, capitalism, businesses, and leadership written by women. Here are some notable titles:
- Invisible Women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez exposes how biased data that excludes women impacts various aspects of our lives, including government policy, technology, and urban planning.
- Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley exposes the mythology of the free-market and highlights how corporate interests have been pushing governments away from democracy toward oligarchy and monopoly.
- The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli is a hard-hitting analysis of Amazon's pursuit of total domination and its exploitative and abusive methods.
- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier examines society's relationship with technology and the influence and power Instagram wields in society.
- An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang details how Facebook mishandled users' data, spread misinformation, and amplified polarizing views.
- Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowry examines the universal basic income movement and its potential to uplift lives.
- Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism by Diana B. Henriques describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street after the 1929 stock market crash.
- Right kind of wrong: The science of failing well by Amy Edmondson illustrates how to know when failure is beneficial and when it can be harmful, using real-life stories and replacing shame and blame with curiosity and personal growth.
- The lost bank: The story of Washington Mutual - The biggest bank failure in American history details the rise and collapse of Washington Mutual and its impact on trust, fortunes, and the marketplace for risk.
- Fair shake: Women and the fight to build a just economy by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levi discusses why women's progress has stalled in the workplace and argues for a systemic change.
- Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly examines the creation and evolution of Spotify and its opaque business model's consequences for both musicians and listeners.
- The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it by Mary Ann Sieghart provides a perspective on unseen bias women experience at work and outlines ways to address systemic sexism.
- Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and why it's different than you think) by Reshma Saujani confronts corporate feminism and lays out steps for creating lasting change to redefine the workplace with women in mind. This book was published in 2023.
- How to be successful without hurting men's feelings: Non-threatening leadership strategies for women by Sarah Cooper satirically calls out everyday sexism women face in the workplace and offers strategies for women to become leaders without harming the male ego.
Meanwhile, the tobacco industry has been under scrutiny, with Juul, a company in the industry, being accused of co-opting deceptive practices from the tobacco industry. These books serve as a testament to the power of women's voices in shaping our understanding of the world and advocating for change.
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